Confluent has raised $24M in Series B funding, led by Index Ventures and joined by Benchmark, to further develop its open source platform that harnesses real-time streams of data. The company's vision is to create an ecosystem with innovation around streaming data, and the funding will be used for additional work on scalability, security, and simplicity, as well as management and monitoring tools and connectors to integrate with various systems. Confluent remains committed to open source and has been recognized as Microsoft's 2024 OSS on Azure Global Partner of the Year, reflecting its commitment to delivering outstanding open source-based applications and infrastructure solutions on Microsoft Azure.